Games Competition 2008 - Round 4 - Slamball

shteev · Last edited by shteev on Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:12 pm; edited 8 times in total

RULES:

Round 4 starts 7th of April and will end midnight, 27th of April (GMT)

Play your game with THREE LIVES

Post screenshots in this thread.

Please ensure that you own a legal copy of this game to compete.

Don't cheat! - We know where you live!!! Cool

SOME INSTRUCTIONS:

Fire to launch the ball, and up/down for launch strength.

Left/Right for left/right flippers, or Down for both.

Fire + Left/Right to jolt table.

Eat a group of yellow doobries to activate a floating thingie

Eat a floating thingie to increase score multiplier

Eat every doobrie on the level once for.... something good, I expect.

GAME INFO & COMMENTS

Slamball@Lemon64

QUESTIONS:

Please check the Lemon Games Compo FAQ

ROUND 4 SCORETABLE:
These are the final scores for the round:
347,540 - Zottel
205,330 - Apollyon
155,110 - Jolly_Roger
137,830 - gorkur
129,240 - merman
116,810 - TommyE
111,780 - shteev
101,930 - bilko9070
094,020 - Super Ninja!
090,090 - Predator
088,090 - Roger Frames
083,770 - TMLPiper
077,400 - gklinger
073,370 - Biscuit
052,190 - jt-3d

OVERALL STANDINGS:

Coming Soon!

EXTRAS:

Check out the Games Competition at Lemon64's sister site, Lemon Amiga!

The Scorelord keeps a watchful eye on the top c64 scores on the net here.

Many thanks to Shocktrooper for keeping the scores in our previous rounds!
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shteev · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

I thought we'd play with 3 lives, rather than 5 lives. Scores won't be as large, but you'll get more games in a shorter period of time which seems better.

Press F3 on the title screen to change between 3 and 5 lives.
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merman · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:

45040

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shteev · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:

Coo, that didn't take long!

Here's a first go from me:

45,440

Beatcha by 400 pts Razz

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gorkur · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:25 am Post subject:

My first score:

125,450
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jt-3d · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:47 am Post subject:

Damn, I just played a familiarisation game with 5 balls and lost four of them down the left side chute. There's nothing you can do, it's just a kicker that kicks the ball right into the chute. Seems like a design flaw. This might be a long month.
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shteev · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

jt-3d wrote:

Damn, I just played a familiarisation game with 5 balls and lost four of them down the left side chute. There's nothing you can do, it's just a kicker that kicks the ball right into the chute. Seems like a design flaw. This might be a long month.

You can't jolt the table with the fire button at any point?
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merman · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

jt-3d wrote:

Damn, I just played a familiarisation game with 5 balls and lost four of them down the left side chute. There's nothing you can do, it's just a kicker that kicks the ball right into the chute. Seems like a design flaw. This might be a long month.

Pressing fire and left/right shakes the table to jolt the pinball - don't worry, you won't get a TILT light Wink

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gorkur · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

merman wrote:

jt-3d wrote:

Damn, I just played a familiarisation game with 5 balls and lost four of them down the left side chute. There's nothing you can do, it's just a kicker that kicks the ball right into the chute. Seems like a design flaw. This might be a long month.

Pressing fire and left/right shakes the table to jolt the pinball - don't worry, you won't get a TILT light Wink

You CAN in fact get a TILT light, but it takes quite a few tilts Wink

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NYCeguy24 · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

Look fun, have a 38k score to start with. I'm not liking the controls that much. They aren't very responsive IMO. Cause, this could be from being spoiled by Pinball dreams onward, 3D ultra pinball, Psycho Pinball and every thing in between.
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gorkur · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject:

A slightly better score from me:

137,830
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jt-3d · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:42 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info on the table bumping. I'd never have figured that out. I tried the shift keys and control keys and other random keys.
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Jolly_Roger · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:03 am Post subject:

It's a fun game,even if I'm not so keen on the slightly unresponsive controls.Anyway,here's my first go:

52780

Jolly_Roger

shteev wrote:

Eat every doobrie on the level once for.... something good, I expect.

It happens something good indeed...I managed to eat every doobrie and a "level complete" screen appeared.Level 2 is basically the same table only with a different colour scheme,more targets to hit and...little else,I think.

132610

jt-3d · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:54 am Post subject:

Sort of a starter score. Though I'm not sure how mucdh I'll play this one.

52190

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shteev · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

I'm getting close to finishing that first table but haven't managed it yet...

111,780
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gorkur · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject:

Anyone else than me getting CPU jams in the Remember version? Confused

Just made a pretty good run, but the game crashed. This has happened 3 times in Vice now Crying or Very sad

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shteev · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

gorkur wrote:

Anyone else than me getting CPU jams in the Remember version? Confused

Just made a pretty good run, but the game crashed. This has happened 3 times in Vice now Crying or Very sad

I'm using this version, and so far haven't had any problems.
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...e.Jedi.zip
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merman · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:52 am Post subject:

gorkur wrote:

Anyone else than me getting CPU jams in the Remember version? Confused

Just made a pretty good run, but the game crashed. This has happened 3 times in Vice now Crying or Very sad

Had that happen yesterday, quit that session of VICE and started it afresh. Didn't happen again.

Small improvement

55190

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bilko9070 · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

72,310

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Roger Frames · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject:

gorkur wrote:

Anyone else than me getting CPU jams in the Remember version? Confused

Yup, tis happened to me as well.
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Roger Frames · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

I'm not a big fan of computerized pinball games, but frankly, the ball physics on this one are downright bad. And the controls too, as others have mentioned. That said, the table layout is cool.

46.910
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bilko9070 · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

made it to level 2 this time!

if your having trouble with the controls then i cant recommend enough setting your keyboard shift keys to the flipper controls Very Happy

98,470

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NYCeguy24 · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:30 am Post subject:

Roger Frames wrote:

gorkur wrote:

Anyone else than me getting CPU jams in the Remember version? Confused

Yup, tis happened to me as well.

Me too and ALWAYS when I get the x4 bonus. Evil or Very Mad

Going to try Shteev's version.
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TMLPiper · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

I guess I'll submit a score for the first time.

83770
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